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China deal: has the Vatican painted itself into a corner?
shortly before christmas, the vatican sent a delegation to china to discuss the controversial deal unveiled in september. the pact’s wording...
The Catholic Herald
January 4, 2019
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'Farewell great painter...' Why my favourite epitaph is in a Chiswick churchyard
graveyards are, for those of a sombre bent, a useful way of reflecting on mortality. and the older they are, the better, though there’s an a...
Melanie McDonagh
Heretic of the week: Lorenzo Dow
lorenzo dow (1777-1834) was the forerunner of that archetype of american frontier lore, the wandering preacher. born in connecticut, his ear...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0628
cryptic across 5 cutting hair first, we become carmelites (11) 7 is muse of magic lionized? (4) 8 book airline to hawaii in front of thousan...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, january 26 : the third sunday in ordinary time is 8:23–9:3; ps 27; 1 cor 1:10-13, 17; mt 4:12-2...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Prepare for marriage
there is no relationship this side of eternity quite like sacramental marriage. as cardinal robert sarah reminds us in his new book on the p...
The Catholic Herald
Mind, body and spirit: why integrity matters in the spiritual life
it was only recently that i realised i apparently get easier and richer insights while in the shower than when sitting at a desk or even pra...
Fr Dominic Allain
God treasures each of us, so be not afraid
our collect for the 3rd ordinary sunday in the novus ordo was in the 1962 missale romanum and the 8th-century liber sacramentorum engolismen...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Every life is a living out of Israel's journey into light
“in the days past the lord humbled the land of zebulun and the land of naphtali, but in the days to come he will confer glory on the way of ...
Bishop David McGough
The Benedictine who provoked vampire hysteria
shapeshifters: a history by john b kachuba reaktion books, 200pp, £16/$22.50 the myth of the vampire is among the most popular in internatio...
Simon Caldwell
From Brideshead to Hogwarts: a strange architectural tour
novel houses by christina hardyment bodleian library, 240pp, £25/$40 american screenwriters are fond of the term “precinct” to refer to the ...
Matt Thorne
Even in Polynesia, Gauguin couldn’t escape his Catholic roots
when gauguin portraits ends its run at the national gallery this month, the artist will have emerged as a serious portraitist as well as a p...
Lucien de Guise
Dana Gioia: A poet who combines sarcasm and song
the poet dana gioia, who will turn 70 later this year, has eluded classification throughout his career. increasingly, however, to define his...
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Letters: The 'international community' ignores Iraqi Christians
alarm bells ring for iraqi christians sir – i concur with john pontifex’s views in his accurate but disturbing article “caught in the middle...
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Schism, the Old Mass and Pope Francis: an interview with Andrea Riccardi
andrea riccardi is the founder of the community of sant’egidio, an influential lay association active in more than 70 countries. he has been...
Paolo Gambi
Bishop Barron: 1917 and the breaking of Christian Europe
i saw the film 1917 on the vigil of the feast of the baptism of the lord, and i think there’s a connection between the movie and the liturgi...
Bishop Robert Barron
Undiluted Catholicism: what the Amazon really needs
what can the church do to better serve the indigenous peoples of amazonia? and what can she learn from amazonian spirituality? these questio...
The Catholic Herald
Why I won't be visiting Rome's new KFC
i overslept on monday. i had been working all weekend, but that’s no excuse. it was a school day, and there was lunch to pack for my daughte...
Christopher R. Altieri
How Catholicism won the respect of South Korea
the headline statistics are, admittedly, impressive. according to south korea’s catholic pastoral institute, church membership in the ...
Jonathan Wright
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